Posted by El Oso on November 12, 2002 at 08:10:15:
I tend on the whole to be quite skeptical of the notion that one may with confidence posit any single creative work as the "greatest" of its genre, but with Shappy's poem abot Dokken I am forced to make an exception; Shappy is not simply the greatest achievement of 20th century American literature, but he is, in my opinion, THE greatest literary work of all time, period.